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The year had more than its share of headline-grabbing stories in health care. Here are just a few to look back on and reflect. It's also an opportunity to assess what worked and what didn't, and what goals to set in 2015. •The Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act, dubbed "Obamacare," was the issue that absorbed the nation in 2014 as its mandate for individual insurance coverage kicked in. In Virginia, one of 37 states that left enrollment through the state marketplace (exchange) to the federal government at http://www.healthcare.gov, 216,000 residents eventually signed up over an enrollment period that extended into March. (No one worked harder to help get...

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The year had more than its share of headline-grabbing stories in health care. Here are just a few to look back on and reflect. It's also an opportunity to assess what worked and what didn't, and what goals to set in 2015.
•The Affordable Care and Patient...

GLEN ALLEN – The State Board of Health voted Thursday to forge ahead on a lengthy review that may ultimately roll back building codes and other abortion clinic regulations ushered in during former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s administration.
The vote was 13-2,...

When Republican leaders in Virginia ushered through strict regulations targeting women clinics during the administration of former Gov. Bob McDonnell, they fully intended to stop abortion in the commonwealth.
They framed the new rules as an effort to...

The state health commissioner called Wednesday for changes to McDonnell-era building requirements for abortion facilities, a step abortion rights advocates hailed as a big win.
They're hoping to overturn a series of requirements that placed...

We all have a vested interest in ensuring that medical procedures take place in facilities which are safe, modern and well regulated. That principle is more complicated when the procedure is abortion, which brings the personal, emotional, ideological...

Karen Remley announced her resignation as Virginia's Health Commissioner in an email to staff on Thursday. She cited the row over new abortion facility regulations as the reason for her decision."Today's message is very hard to write, as I am...

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia is seeking to add two operating rooms to its Virginia Beach Health Center on Newtown Road that opened in 2010. Planned Parenthood provides gynecological services to low-income women; approximately 3 percent of...

RICHMOND – Women would have to undergo an ultrasound and be offered the results of that procedure before they receive an abortion in Virginia under a bill approved Thursday by the Senate Education and Health Committee.As a part of the state's informed...

RICHMOND – Three major pieces of socially conservative legislation advanced in the General Assembly Wednesday as the Senate passed a measure requiring women to get an ultrasound before receiving an abortion and the House of Delegates voted to repeal the...

Local Reaction:On Wednesday, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest network of breast cancer activists, announced that it would no longer grant funds to Planned Parenthood of America for breast health education and cancer screenings. On...

RICHMOND – When Majorie was 8 years old in the early 1930s, she came home from school in the Texas community she grew up in to find her mother and a friend talking about a neighbor woman who had just died, leaving four children behind."This woman had...

On Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, after voting on the following bill was deferred for a day, the governor issued the following statement.Statement of Governor Bob McDonnell on SB 484RICHMOND – Governor Bob McDonnell issued the following statement today...

RICHMOND – The Virginia state Senate has approved a controversial bill that would require pregnant women to undergo an ultrasound examination and then wait 24 hours before receiving an abortion.Democrats amended the bill to exempt women who are pregnant...

The director of a Newport News clinic that has provided abortion services since 1975, estimated the cost of complying with new architectural standards, approved Friday by the Virginia Board of Health, at a prohibitive $500,000."It's astronomical....

RICHMOND — New laws passed by the General Assembly — including voter-identification requirements and repeal of the one-handgun-a-month purchasing restriction — in what was seen as one of the most contentious sessions in years go into effect Sunday.A...

As of now, the consequences of Attorney General Kenneth "Ken" Cuccinelli's refusal Monday to certify the new abortion facility regulations approved by Virginia's bipartisan Board of Health on June 15 are unclear. However, his action has...

RICHMOND – As of July 1 women seeking an abortion in Virginia will have to undergo an ultrasound 24 hours before undergoing the procedure as Gov. Bob McDonnell signed the controversial fetal ultrasound measure into law Tuesday."Women have a right...

West Virginia's state Senate has approved an abortion ban at 20 weeks' pregnancy, as the state House of Delegates did earlier, and by hefty margins likely to withstand a possible veto.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat, vetoed a similar measure...

A New Mexico panel of legislators voted along party lines Friday to approve two abortion bills, one banning late-term abortions and another requiring minors to notify parents within 48 hours before ending a pregnancy. The House Regulatory and Public...